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The big difference between sports in the U.S. and those in Canada right now is fans in the stands.
As close as it comes in Canada are the cardboard cutout variety, but south of the border many teams have real live butts in seats, including the Texas Rangers who are starting this Major League Baseball season with sold-out crowds.
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Jason Kindrachuk, an assistant professor and Canada Research chairman in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, said there is the potential for this to change this year, but it all depends on the third wave of COVID-19.
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If the third wave has not hit Manitoba yet, it will and soon.
Jason Kindrachuk, an assistant professor and Canada Research chairman in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Max Rady College of Medicine at the University of Manitoba, is currently working out of the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization laboratory at the University of Saskatchewan and is watching it roll across the prairies.
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“There’s that eery feeling of you’re waiting for the hurricane to hit,” he said on Thursday. “You don’t know when it’s coming but it is going to show up.”
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CHILDREN may be a flu bomb when it comes to influenza, but when it comes to COVID-19, they’re more like a firecracker.
CHILDREN may be a flu bomb when it comes to influenza, but when it comes to COVID-19, they’re more like a firecracker.
That’s the conclusion of a study conducted by the Cadham Provincial Laboratory, Max Rady College of Medicine, the University of Manitoba, and the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory.
Dr. James Bullard, Cadham’s associate medical director, and a pediatric infectious disease specialist, said 14 researchers in Winnipeg analyzed samples from nasal swabs of 175 Manitoba children and 130 adults, taken during the outbreak last fall, to see if there were any differences in their infectiousness.
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